16 Days of Activism | Charntelle Maposa - Founder | YIELD Trust

Summary
Charntelle Ropafadzo Maposa is a 21 -year-old founder of Equipped to Cope (E.T.C), an online youth mental health and emotional wellness platform. The platform is divided into two subgroups namely, ‘The Ladies Rondavel’ and ‘The Man Cave’. The aim of the platform is for young people to equip each other with healthy coping mechanisms as responses to everyday life challenges which affect one's mental state or emotional well-being. Backed by a diploma in social work and currently undergoing my final year in the degree program, she is fully invested in the betterment of women in the area of mental health, and strongly believes that a clear mind allows one to function well in society and healthily tackle life's problems. Currently, the platform is offering free online counselling for all women and this has greatly improved various women's outlooks on life and responses to challenges faced daily. The overall goal is to equip women with emotional intelligence and coping mechanisms suitable for their societies at large, families and self. To learn more about her, visit https://yield.co.zw/16days

About The Spotlighting Womxn Community Champion Initiative
The YIELD Trust's Spotlighting Womxn Community Champions during 16 days of activism is a novel structure that seeks to capacity strengthen and activate young women to take up spaces in communities and leadership in eliminating gender-based violence.

This initiative aims to have a vast and strong network of empowered young women offline and online who are a critical mass in overcoming the epidemic of gender-based violence in Zimbabwe and the world.

About YIELD Trust
Youth-led Innovative Engagement with Leadership and Development (YIELD) Trust is a registered youth-led, youth-focused, independent, non-partisan and non-profit organization in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe). The organisation strengthens capacities and provides platforms to women and young people to advocate for their rights, influence policy and hold public officials accountable.

We are mission-driven: YIELD Trust’s mission is to start and sustain the type of conversations and initiatives that will build the youths for the future.

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